Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.